linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] Rename lock_cpu_hotplug/unlock_cpu

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Message-Id: <1156417200.3014.54.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:00:00 +0200
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	ego@...ibm.com
Cc:	rusty@...tcorp.com.au, torvalds@...l.org, akpm@...l.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, arjan@...el.linux.com, mingo@...e.hu,
	davej@...hat.com, dipankar@...ibm.com, vatsa@...ibm.com,
	ashok.raj@...el.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] Rename lock_cpu_hotplug/unlock_cpu_hotplug

On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 16:04 +0530, Gautham R Shenoy wrote:
> 
> 
> This patch renames lock_cpu_hotplug to cpu_hotplug_disable and
> unlock_cpu_hotplug to cpu_hotplug_enable throughout the kernel.

Hi,

to be honest I dislike the new names too. You turned it into a refcount,
which is good, but the normal linux name for such refcount functions is
_get and _put.....  and in addition the refcount technically isn't
hotplug specific, all you want is to keep the kernel data for the
processor as being "used", so cpu_get() and cpu_put() would sound
reasonable names to me, or cpu_data_get() cpu_data_put().

Greetings,
   Arjan van de Ven

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